Police ponder links to three business robberies in two hours

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Mar 26, 2013 at 12:52 PMMar 26, 2013 at 12:55 PM

STOCKTON – Three business robberies in north Stockton by a lone gunman within the course of a little more than two hours Monday night have police considering the possibility of one suspect behind them all.

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STOCKTON – Three business robberies in north Stockton by a lone gunman within the course of a little more than two hours Monday night have police considering the possibility of one suspect behind them all.

“Our detectives are looking into all the cases that they are related,” Stockton Police Department spokesman Officer Joe Silva said. No one was injured in any of the incidents, but in each case a handgun was used to compel victims to comply with the gunman’s demands.

The first robbery occurred at 9:06 p.m. at a business in the 8000 block of West Lane. Police reported the suspect entered, pointed his handgun at the clerk, demanded and received money from the register and then fled on foot. He was described as a 20-year-old black man wearing dark clothing.

At 10:13 p.m., a black man between 20 and 25 years old wearing a black sweatshirt entered a business in the 4700 block of Quail Lakes Drive, where he robbed an employee and two patrons at gunpoint, police reported. He fled on foot northbound on Quail Lakes.

In the third robbery of the night at 11:15 p.m., employees were locking up a business in the 8000 block of Holman Road when an armed suspect showed up and demanded all their money, which they handed over. He then fled on foot, police reported. The suspect in that robbery was described as a black man between 18 and 20 years old, 5 feet 6 inches tall and 150 pounds, wearing a white hooded sweatshirt, a gray ski mask, dark jeans and dark shoes, according to police.

In all three cases, police did not report a vehicle being witnesses leaving any of the crime scenes.